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11 February 2019
Telling the Stories of STEM
I took a chance and asked Jane, has your son considered engineering? She gave me a strange look as if I hadn’t heard her say her son wanted a career that helps people, and she quickly changed the subject. As a result, I missed the opportunity to tell Jane about Mike Paddock.
21 January 2019
How to make glaciers fun to learn about
I’ve been studying terrestrial glaciers for a half dozen years now, and Spoiler Alert: they are melting! While seeing the demise of the cryosphere unfold before my eyes, I started to pursue more and more outreach opportunities to help “get the word out” to the public.
21 June 2018
AGU Centennial is a time for outreach
AGU is turning 100 and we want everyone to be a part of it!
12 March 2018
The Citizen Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse (CATE) Experiment
Where were you during the 2017 solar eclipse? These citizens were being scientists.
The Plainspoken Scientist is the science communication blog of AGU’s Sharing Science program. With this blog, we wish to encourage scientists to reach out to non-scientists and to do so with plainspoken discussion.